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How Lou Sees It @howlouseesit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Finspan with Sharks & Reefs Expansion Solo Playthrough (Level 2 Difficulty) youtu.be/sFpVw-8elAI This is such a fintastic game! The Nautoma is simple to manage allowing you to be focused on your gameplay and decisions. Join me at the table and let’s play! @stonemaiergames.com

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Finspan with Sharks & Reefs Expansion Solo Playthrough (Level 2 Difficulty)

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Arran van denagames.nl @digitaal-analoog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ik heb mijn shoptegoed ingewisseld voor Finspan en heb ondertussen het spel gespeeld. Is het spel het aankopen waard? denagames.nl/analoog/fins...

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Finspan review - maak er sushi van - Digitaal & Analoog

Ik heb mijn shoptegoed ingewisseld voor Finspan en heb ondertussen het spel gespeeld. Is het spel het aankopen waard?

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Fay 🔞📺🦌🫃 @faylette.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

cw: slight dubcon reference maybe?? I saw this shark-focused expansion for the Wingspan spin-off Finspan and knew what I had to do. I imagine this is how everyone reacts to me wanting them to learn a new board game to play with me too. #radiostatic #radiosilence #voxal

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Salt and Sass Games @saltandsass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🎙️ Ep. CIII is live! We’re back on track! We chat a couple of special crowdfunding projects, new video‑game obsessions, board games, and wrap with a “Rules We Always Forget” Game Pie! 💻 youtu.be/WFyYQfyDuZ0 🎧 saltandsass.riverside.com 🌟 Clip: Suzanne talks about a rule she often forgets. 😵‍💫

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Robin Sevakis @jadedsketch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The dumb thing I worked on and wanted to show is here!! 😆 MediaOCD gift card designs!

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Michael O’Connell - Finspan Guy @anarchytabletop.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Just ordered this! I’ve known Pia and Ian since I wrote and published comics back in the ‘90s. I’m sure it’s amazing.

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Cardboard Time @cardboardtime.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In better news, I Finspan'ed recently. Like this a lot solo if I want something breezier.

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Mark M. @homeofmark.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Finspan #boardgame Designed by David Gordon and Michael O'Connell, published by @stonemaiergames.com More games and session reports here: homeofmark.com/more-tableto... More pictures of this session here: www.instagram.com/p/DcB1wRVD7U...

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Liz Davidson @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This week on the pod, I had a blast talking about solo game design with Morten Monrad Pedersen, the man behind the Automa Factory. Check it out! youtu.be/87ka6TZRTww

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Beyond Solitaire Podcast Ep. 243: Morten Monrad Pedersen on Solo Design

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The Deep-Sea Podcast @deepseapod.com · 27/07/2026

Did you check out our latest episode with Deco-stop on deep-sea-inspired #boardgames? @anarchytabletop.bsky.social, the co-designer of #Finspan, shares how the game developed such a #deepsea focus. Listen to the whole episode here: www.deepseapod.com/episodes/dec...

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Michael O’Connell - Finspan Guy @anarchytabletop.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

J beat me with the tie-goes-to-the-attacker rule in our first game of Duel of Meloch. I did manage to win one game of Wingspan Pocket, though. (We played a few.) #stonemaiergames #duelofmeloch #wingspanpocket

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Michael O’Connell - Finspan Guy @anarchytabletop.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I don’t really have anything to add to this on the topic.

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Michael O’Connell - Finspan Guy @anarchytabletop.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I’m finally going to have a game at an indie night market. My son, Jason, and I designed Red Spiral, and we’re printing a few dozen copies of it to sell at PAX West. www.alwaysawake.games/pnw-tabletop...

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Jackson Pope // Eurydice Games @jacksonpope.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's #CraftWednesday! Do you have a game-related crafting project in progress? It could be a prototype, print and play, upgrading the components of a favourite game, making an accessory or even something larger like a table or games room. Share a picture and join in! Please RP!

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Stonemaier Games @stonemaiergames.com · 01/07/2026

Wingspan Pocket! This smaller, swifter, and streamlined version of Wingspan gives each player a single row of cards to create and activate every turn. There’s also a new type of power, green (ongoing) benefits. Join me at 10:00 Central on YouTube to chat about it: www.youtube.com/live/6JCCSCG...

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Watch It Played @watchitplayed.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Yendor ONLY teaches solo rules. He won’t let you play multiplayer.

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Randy Flynn @rf-seattle.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Going live in less than 10 minutes!

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Michael O’Connell - Finspan Guy @anarchytabletop.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This touches on some of the problems with AI that I find most troubling. Similar problems exist in how we anthropomorphize corporations and social media platforms. Decades of pretending that aggregate representations of thought ARE thought have conditioned us to believe nonsense.

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MyPR @myprcoza.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

World Ocean Day, marked globally on 8 June, is a reminder that the ocean is a living system, full of movement, beauty, danger and delicate balance. It’s also, rather wonderfully, the setting for one of the most elegant nature-inspired boardgames on the table right now: Finspan. Finspan casts…

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Celebrate World Ocean Day With Finspan

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Ted Mann Schaller @tedmannschaller.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Counterpoint is live on Kickstarter! 2 years ago I had a silly idea to mix two of my favorite things (classical music and games) and here we are after countless hours of prototyping, testing, simplifying, and reworking. Excited to hear your music! 💛🎻🎶 www.kickstarter.com/projects/squ...

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Counterpoint: a Co-op Classical Music Trick-Taking Game

Counterpoint is a cooperative trick-taking game for 3-5 players where the challenges are based on different pieces of classical music.

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Stonemaier Games @stonemaiergames.com · 20/05/2026

Here are some photos about how to organize Euphoria Essential and the Finspan expansion. Please note that the Finspan expansion tray fits in the game box next to the original tray—keep both so the box can hold the maximum number of cards! There's extra space in the Euphoria box for sleeved cards.

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jlovessw @jlovessw.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Ordered the Finspan: Sharks & Reefs expansion on Wednesday and it arrived today 😍 Already played it three times. Great job @stonemaiergames.com and @anarchytabletop.bsky.social! Loving the new sharks and coral mechanics.

Finspan board game with the Sharks & Reefs expansion. Game resources, fish cards, the game board, and the game board boxes are on the table.

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Stonemaier Games @stonemaiergames.com · 13/05/2026

Launch day is here for Finspan: Sharks & Reefs and Euphoria Essential Edition! Our fulfillment centers are ready to start shipping these products early next week. store.stonemaiergames.com

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Color A Cube @coloracube.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

🌊🐟 A new adventure is making waves in Color-A-Cube! To celebrate the arrival of Finspan: Sharks & Reefs, we’re bringing 4 FREE Finspan-inspired models to Color-A-Cube, a relaxing voxel coloring game available on Meta Quest (VR), PICO (VR), and Steam (PC). @stonemaiergames.com

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Tom Sedlacek @tomsedlacekoio.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

@anarchytabletop.bsky.social We're discussing Finspan on the Outside is Overrated podcast tomorrow! The episode will drop May 1.

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MyPR @myprcoza.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Imagine experiencing an underwater world of exploration, research and collection through a board game. Finspan, the latest title from Stonemaier Games, is now available in South Africa and it does exactly that. It immerses players in the rich ecosystems of the ocean where they get to discover fish…

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Finspan Makes a Splash in the World of Tabletop Gaming

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Michael O’Connell - Finspan Guy @anarchytabletop.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Demoing Finspan with the first expansion in the Geek Dad area of GameStorm last weekend. #gamestorm

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Joseph Z Chen 🔜 PAX Unplugged @fanfactories.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

It's live!! The game I designed, Honeypot, just launched on Kickstarter! Two years of loving work. Would be grateful if you checked it out & considered backing! It's an "I stack, you choose" game where you play as secret agent bears setting and avoding traps! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...

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Forage + Honeypot

A pair of fast and fun games for everyone, from the team that brought you the smash hits Point Salad, Calico, and Cascadia!

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Michael O’Connell - Finspan Guy @anarchytabletop.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

youtu.be/m0iYCOToMfc?... This person really delves into the decisions that we made to make onboarding much easier with Finspan (compared to Wingspan). It was cool to see.

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Why Finspan’s Simplicity Divides Board Gamers

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Suck it JK Rowling

Mediterranean Parrotfish card from finspan with the fun fact “It starts life as female, then changes to male in adulthood, turning from bright red and yellow to gray and blue.”

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Michael O’Connell - Finspan Guy @anarchytabletop.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

This has made working on expansions for Finspan so difficult. #finspan

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Joan le Sensenic @sensenic.eurosky.social · 13/12/2025

204. 🎲 #Finspan was cool, got me 😵‍💫 at the start with its apparent high complexity but got the (or enough of a) hang of it quickly enough. Beautiful & lovingly researched, loved the facts on each fish species. cc @biblosfera.bsky.social, @vanthulla.bsky.social (who won the game!)

Photo of a table with the game being played by 4 players, each with their own vertically oriented board. There are playing cards with images of different fish pieces on it, tokens for eggs, fish & schools & help cards all over the place. The game takes up so much space the bottom of each board is overhanging a bit.

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Michael O’Connell - Finspan Guy @anarchytabletop.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The Rebels’ desperate gambit to destroy the under construction Death Star failed (in Star Wars Rebellion).

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Michael O’Connell - Finspan Guy @anarchytabletop.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

@kristenmott.bsky.social, my co-designer on an upcoming game, was featured on Jamey’s “My Favorite Mechanism” for her game, Stable Times. So excited for her! youtu.be/Jr9fheVoX9c

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Stable Times: My Favorite Mechanism

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